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Fantastic read. The scale of the problem escalates so suddenly, I always love how ambitious the scope of his stories are.
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That system (the tribunal) is gone. It has been replaced by ML (probably trained by Tribunal data) and hence 99% automated.
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Since there aren't many easy ways of shorting housing (besides rather exotic securities), speculative activity usually distorts prices upwards more so than it does down.
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The fact that you provided no evidence to back up your beliefs, but stated only the race of these people, implies that to you, race alone is enough to implicate these people. That is racism.
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How do you feel about disclosure rules similar to those regulating stock analysts?
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If by subsidy, you're implying that the transit system is receiving freebies they don't deserve, then I'd have to disagree with you. Transportation hubs create far more value via their impact on nearby real estate values than
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It's well understood by the locals that the Hong Kong (and possibly other Asian cities) system reaps most of it's revenue from land rights around/immediately above the stations. In In Asia transit hubs are often also retail h
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Agreed. When the problems they try to tackle are orders of magnitude harder than...making Snapchat, you have to attribute their failure more to difficulty of the problem than incompetence of the people.
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You just repeated the claim I am arguing against: that the mere one-sidedness of a group of people's beliefs is in itself a problem without discussing the merits of those beliefs, for which I constructed the example of "the mere o
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"Wow, geez, the Republican party is so one sided, like, everyone there is a Republican!" That is such an utterly meaningless argument. You can use that argument to challenge literally any well established fact regardless of it&#x2
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Sure, the US government engages in espionage. But there is a huge difference between stealing the specs of the latest Chinese fighter jet so you know how to engage against them, and stealing in order to hand it off to your own domestic indu
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The road is a public space where privacy is not expected, and your behavior directly affects the safety of others. I'm not sure that we ought to protect "safe space to be a bad driver" the way other personality differences o
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Just a random point of feedback, but you sound more like the one carrying confirmation bias here. But really, throwing that phrase around in an internet debate is pretty meaningless rhetoric. It takes YEARS of working with someone before
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Bike lanes in the US are incredibly unsafe for bikers and scooters, and accidents easily result in death of the biker/scooter. Scooters and pedestrians sharing a sidewalk is also unsafe, but accidents are far less lethal. The problem i
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Power is not measured by your ability to walk away from a deal, but by your next best alternative if you do walk away. Lets not pretend like every deal not made at gunpoint was some how made by parties of equal power.
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Saying that everyone there is racist would be casting a wide net. Saying that a large enough % of people are racist such that it would materially impact your quality of life if you are a PoC is a perfectly reasonable thing to say.
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I think this is exactly what happened with physical attractiveness in the TV era. Suddenly we are bombarded with images of the most beautiful people in the world, and everyone had become much more insecure about their looks ever since.
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Because profits convert to a valuation multiple. Currently Amazon enjoys a sweet sweet PE ratio, so it's more efficient to maximize profits, get rewarded by investors, and then donate personally.
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"consumers price goods by value, not by costs" That is in itself a great argument for the subscription model. Consumes receive value from continued use over time, so why not fit revenue to the same shape?
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New OS versions (especially from Apple) regularly create new bugs or completely break compatibility with old software. The cost of upkeep is not entirely predictable and easy to "price-in" to the upfront cost.